[geeks] Sun: SunFire V20z serial port processor

[Lionel Peterson]

I don't think Sun designed/built their own x86 motherboards - the low-end desktop x86 workstations were re-branded Tyan motherboards. I'd try and figure out who built the MB for Sun, and that might be a more helpful path to chase down.

Is there a reason you want to alter the operation of the iDRAC/iLO control board? I just took possession of a couple Dell r620 1U servers and they have so-called "executive" iDRAC which, among other things provides me with browser access to the sever console (KVM over IP), power usage monitor, temp, etc info.

Ken

> On Feb 3, 2023, at 14:37, Mouse via geeks <geeks at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> [me, Mouse]
> 
>>>> I have a SunFire V20z, an x86 machine.  It works reasonably well
>>>> for most of the purposes I want to put it to.
>>>> [...is the SP's hardware environment known enough to run other
>>>> software in place of Linux on it?...]
> 
> [Alex D]
> 
>>> mouse,
> 
>>> have you already looked through this document?
> 
>>> http://archives.retrobridge.org/sun/system-handbook/3.4/collections/TECHNICALINSTRUCTIONSURE/1-71-1018648.1-1.html 
> 
> No, that was not one I had found - thank you for the pointer!  Looking
> at it now, though, it doesn't say anything I hadn't already learnt from
> other sources.
> 
>>> resetting the SP to defaults only wipes out user and network settings so it$
> 
> That's what I'd gathered from elsewhere, and that's what I was planning
> if I couldn't find more information otherwise.  But I was hoping to not
> have to reverse-engineer anything.
> 
> [Patrick Giagnocavo]
> 
>> From memory, the SP on the V20z is a separate board that connects with somet$
> 
> I could, assuming of course that your memory is correct.  But what
> would that give me?  The SP is not interfering with the main machine's
> operation as far as I can tell; it just irritates me to have a computer
> there that's got the potential to run a real OS of my choosing but
> instead is stuck running a vendor-binary Linux.
> 
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